EU foreign policy chief says Israeli settlements should be treated like Russian-occupied Crimea

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Kaja Kallas called for European governments to take a 'principled stance' to back a ban on trade from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has said that the EU should treat illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories in the same way as it treated Russia’s invasion of Crimea. Kallas told The Irish Times on Friday that Europe could not be taken seriously as long as it remained divided on a response to